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Picnics in the Berkshires, expeditions up Mount Tom, or even a stroll around Paradise Pond while away the daytime pleasantly on unplanned weekends, but in the evening the pickings are poor. After a meal, if a couple doesn't take in one of the two movies, there is nothing much left but to provide its own entertainment...
...Pestalozzi gave a lifetime to learning the lessons that he taught, and many of them he learned from children in the first place. He began taking youngsters into his home even before he had a real school, gathering them, Pied-Piper fashion, every time he went out for a stroll. He bathed and fed them, taught them to spin and weave, read and write, sing and draw. He never flogged or goaded them, taught as much with his heart as with his head. "Learning," said Pestalozzi, "is not worth a penny when courage and joy are lost along...
...arrivals are herded into a former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...roads lead to wealth and glory," wrote the author of Don Quixote, "that of letters and that of arms." By 1569, Miguel de Cervantes, 22-year-old son of a footloose, impoverished doctor, had already taken a short stroll down the road of Spanish letters with a sheaf of verses under his arm. Although he managed to get a few of them published, he looked in vain for wealth and glory, finally came to a decision: he would follow both roads and double his chances...
...Sometimes I miss breakfast here entirely because it doesn't open until 7:30 ... so I stroll up to the Square for something to eat ... have to eat something in your alimentary canal to start off the day, y' know, even if it's only a biscuit...